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But Jesh '
urun waxed fat ,
and kicked ;
you waxed fat ,
you grew thick ,
you became sleek ;
then he forsook God who made him ,
and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation .
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They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods ;
with abominable practices they provoked him to anger .
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They sacrificed to demons which were no gods ,
to gods they had never known ,
to new gods that had come in of late ,
whom your fathers had never dreaded .
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You were unmindful of the Rock that begot you ,
and you forgot the God who gave you birth .
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The LORD saw it ,
and spurned them ,
because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters .
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And he said , `
I will hide my face from them ,
I will see what their end will be ,
for they are a perverse generation ,
children in whom is no faithfulness .
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They have stirred me to jealousy with what is no god ;
they have provoked me with their idols .
So I will stir them to jealousy with those who are no people ;
I will provoke them with a foolish nation .
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For a fire is kindled by my anger ,
and it burns to the depths of Sheol ,
devours the earth and its increase ,
and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains .
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And I will heap evils upon them ;
I will spend my arrows upon them ;
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they shall be wasted with hunger ,
and devoured with burning heat and poisonous pestilence ;
and I will send the teeth of beasts against them ,
with venom of crawling things of the dust .
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In the open the sword shall bereave ,
and in the chambers shall be terror ,
destroying both young man and virgin ,
the sucking child with the man of gray hairs .
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I would have said , "
I will scatter them afar ,
I will make the remembrance of them cease from among men ,"
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had I not feared provocation by the enemy ,
lest their adversaries should judge amiss ,
lest they should say , "
Our hand is triumphant ,
the LORD has not wrought all this ."'